Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He accepts as-if legal rights in that spirit and for reasons of strategy will make mostly the same decisions a conventionalist would make when statutes are plain or precedents crisp and decisive .
2 All that would reinforce the particular policy to which my hon. Friend referred and would damage tremendously the prospects of the British people and destroy countless jobs .
3 ‘ Though you did make rather a big dent in my dignity .
4 But it would make rather a lovely weekend home . ’
5 Therefore , I would see from a public point of view a substantial expenditure on this subject and I do n't think necessarily a level cuts from county planners .
6 Er I think that , that my recollection of the last meeting was that if we could just knock together a Northumberland newsletter a unison newsletter that 's quite clearly coming from the three organizations that represent the membership in Northumberland it would be better than th this national stuff has one union on it , as I see it at the moment .
7 In this new lab of his he can knock together a human being out of the unlikeliest odds and ends .
8 should think so an all
9 Therefore , simply to represent Jesus as the Good Shepherd without any explanatory note would convey entirely the wrong impression .
10 " Do n't slow down every time , Loc , he told his driver curtly in French .
11 In the standard recovery , the full opposite rudder is always applied first , and if it does slow down the rotation , the nose of the glider will automatically drop , helping to unstall the wings .
12 The brewers argued that introducing arbitration would inevitably slow down the process of negotiating agreements .
13 This narrowing or furring up of the arteries can slow down the flow of the blood to your heart ( giving rise to the condition known as angina ) or even cut off the supply completely , at which point a heart attack then occurs .
14 Vitamin E : research shows that it interrupts the free radical chain of destruction and so can slow down the ageing process .
15 It may slow down the discussion but improve its quality .
16 LICENSING difficulties may slow down the building of nuclear power plants in the United States , Britain and West Germany — but the French still press on almost untrammelled by objectors .
17 If you live at any distance from medical help , or are not within easy reach of a telephone , it might be wise to add some ‘ activated charcoal ’ to the medicine cupboard , as it can slow down the absorption of poison .
18 AIDS patients are being given a new vaccine which could slow down the effects of the disease .
19 It has no calories of its own , but it does slow down the metabolic rate , making it harder to burn up the calories you do consume .
20 It is believed the characteristic dimply appearance results from a build-up of toxins and fluid which can slow down the metabolism of the cells .
21 To add a new word into the dawg , the current structure would need to be searched both forwards and backwards to establish whether or not the required paths exist , which would slow down the building algorithm ( see section 3.3.3 ) .
22 Lower stimulus intensities will engender fewer sensitized stores and the greater diffusional distances will slow down the wave speeds .
23 However , Marx believed that ruling class ideology could only slow down the disintegration of the system .
24 However , if weight loss is excessive , then muscle tissue rather than fat tissue is lost , and this in turn will slow down the metabolic rate , making it more difficult to lose weight thereafter .
25 Thus one organization will expound in the media about the urgent need to ‘ slow down the hospital closures ’ , while another will follow hot on their heels , saying , ‘ Close the hospitals as rapidly as possible . ’
26 In regions of slower expansion , the gravitational attraction of the matter would slow down the expansion still further .
27 The Institute of Housing , in more moderate tones , claims that the replacement of fair rents by market rents will slow down the decline of the private rented sector rather than revive it .
28 Although the structure and powers of the new committee have yet to be decided , conservationists argue that the additional bureaucracy will slow down the process of designation , cost a lot of money , reduce the power of SNH and may result in designated sites losing their status .
29 Better sacks have bound seams which do at least slow down the leaking process .
30 Any friction at the hammer pivot will slow down the movement of the hammer , tending to make the action sluggish .
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